The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.